PETER de Savary made sure his first game as Millwall's new chairman would be memorable. PdeS, as he likes to be known, dressed in a skin-tight Lions shirt over his pinstripe suit, faced the sparsely populated Millwall end, saying: "I'd like to welcome our visitors from Birmingham."

Little did he know they were actually sitting behind him. He also included gems such as: "Football is about winning and losing, it's black or white, nothing in between."